Duty calls

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George Osborne's trip to a Cardiff bingo hall to highlight his halving of duty on the game provides sub-editors with much material for puns and speech bubbles, while the Telegraph even has sketchwriter Michael Deacon describe the visit. Mr Osborne wore "the delighted smile of a man who cannot believe he had somehow never got around to trying this charming pastime before", he says.

"For a man who 'loves a game of bingo', [as he claimed after last week's Budget] George Osborne appeared to need help yesterday in telling his two little ducks from his two fat ladies," suggests Daily Mail political correspondent Gerri Peev. And the Sun - which gives the chancellor a speech bubble reading "Little Boy Blue, number two" - says he had to ask regular Shirley Nixon how to play, before quoting her as saying he was "brilliant".

The Daily Mirror says "Number 30... Bullingdon Bertie" didn't have things all his own way, quoting another regular saying: "I don't really know why he's here. I don't think he understands our lives and how we live." The paper pictures the chancellor shouting "mansion", rather than "house". Meanwhile, the Daily Star asks: "Is bingo a bit taxing, George?" noting that he left empty-handed.

It says the announcement, expected on Wednesday from prescriptions body the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), will allow women to pre-order emergency contraception against the wishes of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Opponents are quoted raising fears that it could lead to increased promiscuity and higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases.

Another issue on the front pages is that of police corruption, with the Independent reporting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe "admitted that rogue and corrupt officers may evade justice because of the 'mass shredding' of sensitive corruption files held by Scotland Yard".

Its sketchwriter Donald MacIntyre describes his evidence that some of the material - relating to a secret probe into possible police corruption - may have been destroyed for "data protection" reasons, having previously been transferred to two computers, one of which investigators couldn't find for a year and proved to be damaged.

"This would be funny if it was not so serious - 'The dog ate my homework' on an industrial scale," says the writer.

The Daily Mail describes Sir Bernard as the "police chief who doesn't have a clue", while its cartoonist Mac gives his take on the ban on further document shredding by picturing officers slathering papers with ketchup in the Scotland Yard canteen.

The Daily Mirror's editorial says: "The lacklustre performance... will have done little to restore public confidence in the police."

A future PM?

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Some of the headlines again make gloomy reading for Labour leader Ed Miliband, with the Daily Mirror reporting suggestions from one of his MPs, David Lammy, that he has work to do before people see the party as a "government-in-waiting".

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The Times is among the papers reporting the "hidden meaning in Turner's epic skylines". It says scientists have analysed 300 images from grand masters in the Tate and National Galleries - including portraits by the great British artist JMW Turner - to produce a dataset of air quality, based on the hue the artist painted the sky.

"Not only do the painted sunsets get more beautiful after known volcanic events, but they also get progressively redder as the chimneys of the industrial revolution choke the sky," reports the paper's Tom Whipple.

Meanwhile, it's modern-day air quality that concerns the Daily Mirror, which quotes campaigners saying that pollution is killing thousands of people prematurely. The paper cites government monitoring figures suggesting that Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield had at least five days last year when the air was potentially harmful to healthy people.

"Do voters look at Ed and see him as PM?" its headline asks. The answer, according to the Times, is no. "Fewer than a fifth of voters see Ed Miliband as a prime minister in waiting," it reports, citing the results of a YouGov survey that also says only 26% think Labour is ready for office, with 52% saying the party is not. Despite this, the Times adds, a poll for the Sun put Labour three points ahead of the Conservatives - enough to secure a 30-seat majority.

Meanwhile, the Sun says Mr Miliband faces a "revolt" from parliamentary candidates because the party is failing to fund their 2015 election campaigns. "Just 42 out of 106 constituencies they are targeting... were given cash from donors," the Sun's analysis says.

The Guardian's editorial says rising average pay and falling inflation will make it harder for the opposition in the coming months and that it must get "sharper". "To stay in the game, what Labour needs is less new principles than a new spirit of fight over the practicalities."

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mary Riddell argues that Labour has "no better leader on offer" than Mr Miliband. "Whatever drawback the incumbent may possess are more than counter-balanced by his success in producing radical ideas, turning his dead-in-the-water party into a potential election winner and fostering unity among Labour's warring tribes."

However, she reckons he must abandon this pursuit of a "Labour love-in" and abandon his recent play-it-safe agenda if he is to have a chance of electoral success.

Match of the Day

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Papers look ahead to Nick Clegg's first head-to-head debate with UKIP leader Nigel Farage over the UK's place in the European Union, with the Independent seeing it as a "calculated risk" for the Liberal Democrat leader that could "save Lib Dem seats or spark a leadership race if it backfires".

While she shudders at the thought of what might next be consigned to the recycling bin of history - "Shoe boxes? Loo roll holders?" - the paper recreates some classic egg box products, including Easter chicks, a mouse nose, cress garden and a spring wreath, complete with instructions on how to make them.

It also includes "things they probably should not say", suggesting Mr Farage should avoid "some of my best friends are foreigners", while Mr Clegg should steer clear of "some of our best nannies are foreigners".

And the Guardian takes an altogether gloomier tone, saying: "Here is the weather forecast - and it's not good news." Scientists also warned of the increasing frequency of extreme events, resulting in occasional very cold winters and very wet summers, it says. The paper adds that the UK will be vulnerable to the effects of changes in climate elsewhere in the world, such as rocketing prices of imported food.